What do we call the United States today? Surely no longer free in the classic sense of the word. How can the nation be considered "free" when the government takes billions of dollars on a whim from taxpayers to use to prop up failing businesses?

So, how do we characterize the United States today and where, as a nation, are we going? Yuri Maltsev, an economics professor at Carthage College in Wisconsin, has some ideas.

"The US today resembles that of Russia in 1917, Cuba in 1959 or China in 1948," he says in a recent essay.

That is an interesting statement indeed, coming from a man who in a previous life worked as an economist under Gorbachev in the Soviet Union. It is definitely food for thought. Read his essay here.

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Peter Steele said:

RE: Knowing the forces of history as a veteran of the cold war Philip M. Crane R-Ill wrote two books - The Democrats' Dilemma and The Sum of Good Government as my late father's friend and associate. He graduated from Hillsdale College and entered politics as an associate of the late Major General Barry M. Goldwater, Sr. He said about the Democrats who tried to make a Soviet America with their endorsement of socialist schemes mainly due to FDR and LBJ Democrats. History is a strange force with pressures on a nation, especially ours. When you leave organizations such as the Communist Party, USA and the Socialist Party, USA these forces can worsen the condition of our country as my late father RADM Peter Steele, USN told people and me. Peter F. Steele

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